Support AIMUG
Funded by the room
AIMUG is free. No tickets, no paywalls, and every talk goes up on YouTube. Nobody can buy a talk slot: the lineup is picked on merit. Support from the people who come is what keeps it that way.
- Free to attendNo tickets and no paywalls, in person or online.
- Talks on meritPitches are picked on merit. Sponsors can't buy a slot.
- Open by defaultEvery talk is recorded and published for anyone to learn from.
Give monthly
A meetup costs about $150. Ten people giving $15 a month cover it, and monthly support lets us plan the pizza and the stream ahead of time. Every monthly supporter gets a thank-you in the newsletter (only if you want one) and the Supporter role on Discord.
Coffee
$5per month
Keeps Office Hours caffeinated.
Give $5Pizza
$15per month
Feeds the room at the meetup.
Give $15Streaming
$25per month
Keeps the stream and the recordings running.
Give $25API credits
$50per month
Pays for API credits for demos and build days.
Give $50Special events
$100per month
Makes the bigger nights possible.
Give $100
Or give once
- $10tokens for site updates
- $25pizza for 5
- $50a month of streaming
- $100API credits for a build day
- $200a guest speaker's travel
- Any amountyour choice
It pays for pizza, AV and streaming, and the tools behind the site. Payments go through Stripe. Questions? Ask in #general on Discord or at Office Hours.
Sponsor an event
Sponsor as yourself or as your company, and reach the people building with AI in Austin, in the room and on YouTube. Sponsors make it better: better food, more events, hackathons. They never buy a talk, and that's why people trust it.
- members on Meetup
- 2,264
- talks recorded
- 87
- YouTube views
- 34,097
- every month
- Since 2023
Counted Oct 9, 2026.
Feed the room
$500 / night
- Better food and drinks for one meetup
- Your logo on that night's slides
- A thank-you from the stage
- A mention in the recap
Feed the room all quarter
$1,750 / quarter
- Better food and drinks at all three meetups that quarter
- Your logo on each night's slides, a thank-you from the stage and a mention in each recap
- One Hacky Hour that quarter, funded by you
- Your name on our Thanks list for the quarter
Sponsor an event
Let's talk
- A Hacky Hour, our casual build-and-demo nights, or a bigger night: a mixer, a showcase or a build day
- Food, drinks, API credits or the venue
- Your name on what you fund, in the room and in the recap
Sponsor at a hackathon
By application
- AIMUG co-sponsors larger hackathons with other AI communities and field teams, in Central Texas and around the world.
- Sponsor a track, put up a bounty, or bring your project for a full team to build with.
- Apply first. AIMUG's leadership decides whether it's interesting, aligned and valuable to the community.
- We're community led, so it has to prove its value to senior engineering leaders across Texas, and our members choose what they take on.
How we stay independent
- Sponsors fund a night or an event, never the group.
- No sponsor gets a talk slot or a say in the lineup.
- No exclusive deals.
- We can say no to any sponsor.
- A sponsor's project gets a hackathon team only when our members choose it.
Thanks to
Center for Government and Civic Service, Austin Community College
Our venue and education partner. CGCS gives us the room in exchange for what we bring their students, plus volunteer mentoring for their staff.
Where we started, as Austin LangChain. LangChain does the upstream work: open-source projects like LangGraph and Deep Agents that let us learn new ideas fast and bring them to the community. Many of our talks build on them.